The U.S. Border Patrol will continue to kill people who throw rocks, in defiance of a government-ordered review that urged a stop to this practice, the agency’s head told the Associated Press in an exclusive interview released Tuesday. Click Here: Fjallraven Kanken Art Spring Landscape Backpacks Border Patrol Chief Mike Fisher flatly rejected recommendations by the non-profit Police Executive Research Forum that the Border Patrol and its umbrella agency Customs and Border Protection halt the practice of responding to rock throwers and perceived assailants in vehicles by using deadly force. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The recommendations are “very restrictive,” charged Fisher. “We shouldn’t have carve-outs in our policy and…

Recent disclosures of the NSA’s widespread dragnet program coupled with its frequent targeting of journalists are having a ‘chilling effect’ on American writers, stifling their freedom of expression at great detriment to society, says a new report Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to Self Censor. Published Tuesday by the group PEN America—an organization of writers dedicated to advancing literature and promoting free speech for writers around the world—surveyed 520 American writers and found they are “not only overwhelmingly worried about government surveillance, but are engaging in self-censorship as a result.” “[D]uring the Nixon years,” one respondent wrote, “I took it for granted that the administration had an eye…

As TransCanada races to pump the southern portion of Keystone XL with tar sands oil by the end of this year, a report released Tuesday by Public Citizen finds that the Texas portion of the pipeline is riddled with structural flaws including sags, dents, and shoddy patchwork that could spark dangerous leaks and spills. “The government should investigate, and shouldn’t let crude flow until that is done,” said Tom Smith, director of Public Citizen’s Texas office. “Given the stakes—the potential for a catastrophic spill of hazardous crude along a pipeline that traverses hundreds of streams and rivers and comes within a few miles of some towns and cities—it would be…

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Coincidence? Click Here: cheap INTERNATIONAL jersey The day after a minor uproar over the White Houses’ “managed media coverage” of the president hit the news cycle, the  WhiteHouse.gov “Photo of the Day” showed a working Obama signing a new piece of legislation surrounded by a semi-circle of news photgraphers. No problem here. With the nation’s largest news outlets accusing the White House of shutting down access to the president in unprecedented ways, Obama spokesman Josh Earnest called the managed release of photographs and video of the president, while banning journalists from specific events, nothing to worry about and a “clear win” for the American public. “Unlike media photographers, official White…

Though the politicians continue to deny its possibility, some of the world’s largest corporations (many of them also its biggest polluters) are already planning for the likelihood of a carbon tax or other financial penalty for industry-generated emissions that are leading the globe towards climate catastrophe. As the New York Times reports on Thursday: In a related but separate development, Inside Climate News reported earlier this week how Bloomberg financial services has introduced a new tool for professional analysts and traders who are already calculating how “companies might fare in the carbon-constrained economy” if and when some of the world’s largest energy companies are forced to leave untapped fossil fuels…

Retailer Ted Baker is launching a new ‘Made in Britain’ collection featuring menswear and womenswear from today, November 5. The collection will be positioned as a Ted Baker premium product offering and is the brand’s first significant move into “more contemporary, luxury fashion” as well as targeting a more youthful customer. Celebrating Britishness and its “inherent quirks and cultures,” Ted Baker explains in a statement, that the ‘Made in Britain’ collection will have four statement drops a year, and will draw inspiration from the early 60’s youth culture combined with a modern, British twist and casual approach to dressing. Click Here: crusaders rugby jerseys In addition, the collection will also…

The majority of U.S. residents agree: the current economic system works in favor of the rich over those who are not born into wealth and one way of shrinking the growing gap of income inequality would be to raise the national minimum wage substantially, a new poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News finds. According to the poll, 57% of Americans think the federal government should “pursue policies that try to reduce the gap between wealthy and less well-off Americans.” Sixty-four percent, or nearly two-thirds of Americans, said current federal government policies do more to favor wealthy Americans over the poor. And 66% percent support raising the federal…

2013 is drawing to a close, but the war in Afghanistan—now in its 13th year—continues, with the prospect of a 23-year occupation being added to the annals of U.S. militarism. For Afghan civilians, the year brought increased casualties. As of the end of November 2013, 2,730 Afghan civilians had been killed in violence during the year, a 10 percent increase compared to the same period of 2012, according to United Nations figures. NATO casualties during the year, in contrast, dropped from 394 in 2012 to 151 in 2013, according to a tally by the Associated Press. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Results of a CNN poll published Monday showed that…

The U.S. military used Okinawa, Japan as a testing ground for biological weapons during the early 1960s while the prefecture was under U.S. rule, Kyodo News revealed Sunday. In over a dozen tests conducted between 1961 and 1962, rice paddies were showered with rice blast fungus to evaluate its threat to rice crops, according to U.S. military documents reported by Kyodo News. The fungus, described by scientists as a “threat to global food security,” causes lesions to form on plants and is estimated to ruin enough rice crops to feed 60 million people each year. Kyodo News reports that similar experiments were conducted in Taiwan, in addition to previously disclosed…